Specifying optional child features

The feature manifest (feature.xml) enables the definition of included features. Included features define a parent-child relationship for features, such that actions on the parent apply also to the child. For example, if the parent is installed, the child is also installed. An included feature may be marked as optional. This would enable a parent to be installed without some of the optional child features.

When the Lotus® Expeditor platform installs a new feature, all optional children of the feature, if they are available on the update sites specified during the install operation, will be installed.